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“In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus issued this decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered and burnt offerings are presented. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, with three layers of massive stones and one layer of timber. The cost is to be defrayed by the royal treasury.

“Furthermore, the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be given back. Each one is to be returned to its proper place in the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.

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